The Terror

A Novel

Hardcover, 784 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 2007 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-01744-2
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The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the …

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  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
  • Horror - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Horror
  • Thrillers
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  • Sea monsters
  • Shipwrecks